The Arizona sentinel., 1887-10-15
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

tnelr pamphlets all over huSSla.
 The fashionable Swiss hotels now have American bars. presided over by handsome Swiss girls in native dress. This is said to account for the with drawal of English patronage.
 -Frenchwomen have of late begun to manifest an extraordinary taste for rare books, curious editions, and beau- tiful old bindings. Hitherto the typi- cal Parisienne read less than the wom- en of any other civilized nation, and the only wonder is they are so well in- formed as they are in most matters.
 A French journal prints the num- Der of works of art exhibited at the saloons since 1872. Of total of 2, 069 that year, 1.500 were pictures proper. The total to date is "A. 408. including 64k 146 pictures proper. The other 2O.- 900 were not pictures improper as might be supposed, but sculptures and medals. Philadelphia Press.
 The English co-operatives have a bank whose transactions amount to $80 coo. 900 a year. They have 1. 400 stores and do business of $50, 900, = GOO a year. Their 9O0.000 members receive an annual profit of S15. 000,- 900. Their profits during the past twenty-four years have been $50. 000,- OO0-Public Opinion.
 The Prussian Minister of Public Instruction has vetoed bill providing for the lighting of the Royal museums of Berlin by electricity for the reason that the public has ample facilities for visiting the reading-rooms in daytime. Only the Museum of Art Industry, which already possesses the necessary appliances. will be lighted by cleo tricity and be accessible to the public in the evening hours.
 The Japanese Prof Nishigava is at present studying the German art of beer bre wing at its source in Munich. where he spent as much time as eight days in one brewery. He was sent thither by the Japanese Government which is desirous of checking the growing consumption of brandy. and contemplates the introduction of Ger man and English beer free of duty, while putting high tax on stronger alcoholic liquors.
 A French newspaper reports that in Subiaco. near Rome, all the inhabit- ants are under the influence of cpl lepsy or hypnotism. The curate spends his time in exercising the evil spirits, and Cardinal Blanchi has sent the Pope's special benediction-al with out avail. A troop of soldiers who were sent to the village have shown symptoms of giving way to the disease, and there is supposed to be something in the air affecting the nerves.
 Next to gold. statistics show that kawri gum is the most valuable pro- duct of mining industry in New 2 ea- land. This gum, which is largely used in the manufacture of fine varnishes occurs in the ground formerly occu- pied by kawri forests, and is also found as deposit at the foot of the growing kawri tree. In the North Island about six thousand tons are obtained annual ly, and the value of the aggregate yield up to the present time has been S17. 800, 000 N r Ledger.
 -Comformably to the laws of ad- vance and retreat of glaciers, it is said those in the valley of Chamounix, Switzerland. are now beginning to ad- vance. The lower extremity of the Glacier des Blossoms is mot more than three thousand feet above the level of the sea-" and is going still lower. During the past three years this lower extremity ''has advanced at the rate of fifty yards year." It is said that "a grotto cut out of the ice in May, 1S46 a quarter of mile from the extremity, has moved down more than sixty yards"
 The gold which is now being dug out of the ancient cemeteries (huacas) at Hilandia, Central America, and other places near Pereira, has led more than one thousand workmen to flock to that spot, and town has sprung up there within the last four years which now contains more than fifty thousand inhabitants. Public attention is being turned to those regions, as the ancient burial places and deposits of the wealthy Cacique Caracal have not yet been discovered, and it is believed that his treasures were immensely more valuable than any which haveyet been unearthed.
 It seems anomalous, says an En- glish paper, that corn should be as cheap in part of Turkey as near to the great European markets as Erze- roum is. as in the most remote districts of the far West of America or Mani toba, while live stock and dairy pro- duce sell at low prices. The m cans of communication are so bad in Erze- roum, however, that wheat was selling there last autumn, according to Acting Consul Dewey, at Il shillings quar- ter, barley at little over shillings, sheep at shillings and pence to g shillings each, butter at 53 pence per pound and cheese at penny. When, if ever the proposed railway from Constantinople to Diarbekir is com pleted, the farmers of the vilayet will, no doubt get better prices.
 
 WHAT THE TURKS EAT.